Rosana Collepardo

Rosana Collepardo is Professor of Computational and Molecular Biophysics at the Departments of Chemistry and Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK.  Rosana leads a research group that develops multiscale computational approaches to bridge scales and interrogate the molecular mechanisms that explain self-organisation in biology, including chromatin organisation and biomolecular phase transitions. A key emphasis of her group is probing the organisation of the DNA in the crowded nucleus with sub-molecular resolution and physicochemical accuracy. The Collepardo group models are grounded in experimental observations, physicochemical information, bioinformatics data, advanced computer simulation techniques, and the tools of statistical mechanics.

Rosana grew up in Mexico City, where she studied for an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and specialised in High-Performance Scientific Computing at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She obtained a DPhil in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Oxford, focusing on approximate quantum dynamical methods. After her DPhil, Rosana was a Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellow at New York University and a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow at the Barcelona Institute for Research in Biomedicine. After her postdoctoral work, she started her group at the Departments of Physics in Cambridge supported by a Winton Advanced Research Fellowship.